Woodworking blog entries tagged with 'beech'

I use this one as a smoother for some woods. It is short-ish for a smoother at 8 1/2”, but does its job quite well.
Has a nice weight to it in use – not too light and not too heavy. Feels very solid.
Made from wenge, with beech stripes and an ipe sole.
Finish is tung oil and wax
The bed is 50 degrees and the iron is another of the LV wooden plane irons. I cut it down with a Dremel and about 10 of those tiny cutting wheels.
—Mark Kornell, Kornell ...

Conceptually, a plane is a fairly simple device. It holds some kind of cutter that can be passed over a piece of wood to effect a cut. To work well, it needs to hold the cutter securely, and may have fences, guides or stops to help control the path of the cut. And even those fences, guides and stops aren’t there to help with making the cut, just to ensure consistency.
So that’s it. Hold the cutter securely. In a Krenov-style plane, there are a small number of pieces that factor...

My first experience with handplanes were two 70’s era Stanleys (the block with a red lever cap, and a Handyman smoother) I “rescued” from a drawer in my dad’s garage three years ago. He had a brief flirtation with woodworking around the time I was 5, and the planes had obviously been unused since. The climate here is pretty dry, so there was only minor surface rust to deal with. I cleaned them up, worked on the soles a bit, and without really knowing what I was doing, turned the smoother into...

The leg vise chop’s wood is beech (I just have one big thick beech board and so I use it when I need some hardwood).
.First some rough cuts:
.Then cleaning up:
(you can see here template I used to mark curves of the chop)
(and this is my cleanup kit)
.Ready for parallel guide mortise:
.Parallel guide mortise: first saw cut then cleaning with the chisel (and a block of wood as a guide).
.Dry fit:
.Drawboring:
.Closeups of drawboring results:...

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Down an an unassuming backstreet north of BURNHAM SOUTH BUCKS ENGLAND, you’ll find – improbably – 540 acres of beech and birch woodland, with cows, pigs, sheep and ponies grazing contentedly alongside dog-walkers and families out for a stroll. Equally surprisingly, this ancient pocket of gnarly forest, ponds and heath – some of the trees predate Shakespeare – is owned by the Corporation of London, who snapped it up in 1880 to ...

This is where I go each day to walk my Dog “OZZIE” To breath relax chill out be inspired be amazed.This is just 25 miles west of London and called BURNHAM BEECHES and as you will see some of our wonderful trees are 450 years old. Many are twisted knarly and have over the years been hit many times by lightning.The woodland has been used many times by Film crews to film the likes of Harry Potter and Robin Hood Prince of Theives but to name a few. Open to the general public all ye...

Actually found a few items
Actually got some change back from the twenty dollar bill I gave them, a whopping fifty cents back. Didn’t have enough to buy a second plane that was sitting there, but I think that big guy might just work out.
saw set was a bit older, but so are most of my handsaws. Block plane base is a Stanley #18 1/4, but the cap iron is even close to it.
Now, about that big plane. Says right on the front end that it is a Stanley No. 31. 24” long....

The rails have been assembled, legs attached to the cabinet, a little clean up and should be ready to mortise for the slabs.
It appears I have some corrupted images on my memory card, so may not be able to post any of the photos of mortising or attaching the slabs through the rails with the SPAX type screws. Slabs have been fastened to the top with one screw at each end, there is a 2” gap between the two sections.
I wanted a wide enough space to be able to use a Be...

Installation of the wagon vise hardware – very easy to follow directions!
Gluing up the paduak for the leg vise. If you are going to use the crisscross system, ensure you have a minimum of 2 1/4” final thickness on your vise as the cavity routed for the hardware is considerable.
Plywood top is in place and vise hardware is partially assembled.
Couldn’t resist trying the hardware out after the right front leg was drilled for the holdfast clamp...

I did follow the WoodWhisperer’s plans for the dog holes as well as many of the other elements. I reversed the dog hole jig to make one for the dog block which was canted in the opposite direction. The only thing that accomplished was it kept the 3/8” strip on the movable dog block on the same side as the glue-up.
Routing the dog holes went smoothly, lots of sawdust and shavings!
Gluing the thin strip to the routed piece with a full length caul.
Broug...